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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5998028" data-attributes="member: 177">First off, I wasn't really addressing you, specifically - I was just spring-boarding off your statement.&nbsp; Any &quot;you&quot; I may have said was meant in the general sense, not the Scribble-specific.&nbsp; Sorry if I confused there.Often enough we see folks set up long supports for ideas they think WotC should carry out, apparently stunned that things are not as obvious to WotC as to them/us. These constructions usually hinge on &quot;There is a market!&quot;&nbsp; My point was merely that the existence of the market is not sufficient - the market must be of sufficient size.&nbsp; If it is not of sufficient size, you will not see business action.And that, honestly, is the difference: there is some support for the idea that the market is too small - the perceived behavior is consistent with it being too small.&nbsp; Your other options are usually going to be &quot;there is some other business issue in the way&quot; (which, honestly, is congruent with there being insufficient market - a large enough revenue overcomes most business issues) or some form of, &quot;We are smarter than WotC at the business&quot;.To my way of thinking, Occam's Razor argues against the latter.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 5998028, member: 177"] First off, I wasn't really addressing you, specifically - I was just spring-boarding off your statement. Any "you" I may have said was meant in the general sense, not the Scribble-specific. Sorry if I confused there. Often enough we see folks set up long supports for ideas they think WotC should carry out, apparently stunned that things are not as obvious to WotC as to them/us. These constructions usually hinge on "There is a market!" My point was merely that the existence of the market is not sufficient - the market must be of sufficient size. If it is not of sufficient size, you will not see business action. And that, honestly, is the difference: there is some support for the idea that the market is too small - the perceived behavior is consistent with it being too small. Your other options are usually going to be "there is some other business issue in the way" (which, honestly, is congruent with there being insufficient market - a large enough revenue overcomes most business issues) or some form of, "We are smarter than WotC at the business". To my way of thinking, Occam's Razor argues against the latter. [/QUOTE]

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